The phrase "authorised war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing military actions that have received official approval or legitimacy, often in legal or political discussions.
Example: "The government declared the operation an authorised war, citing the need to protect national interests."
Alternatives: "legitimate conflict" or "sanctioned military action".
And last week Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer introduced an unrelated bill that would speed the arrival of generic versions of biotechnology drugs.Even if the pharmaceutical giants win the battle over authorised generics, they may yet lose the war if the result is a broader public backlash.
The German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg authorised German activity against British India as World War I broke out in September 1914.
With God on Our Side, a sweeping survey of American warfare from the genocide of the native population to the nuclear standoff of the cold war, is a radical revision of the authorised version of American history (decades before Howard Zinn).
The organisation now famous for its derring-do, and as famously secretive, has opened its archive to the historian and journalist Ben Macintyre, so that he can produce the first authorised history of what the SAS did in the war.
The most disastrous is in Mexico, where he has pledged military support to a war against the armed drug cartels, and even authorised plans to seal the border if Mexico collapses.
In reality, Thatcher's Manichean cold warrior certainties, shaped in her Grantham teens (while she was avoiding war-time military service, according to Charles Moore, her authorised biographer), saw little difference between Kinnock's kind of democratic socialist and Kremlin heavies or [miners' leader] Arthur Scargill's revolutionary posturings.
He said the authority for war stemmed from UN Security Council resolution 678, the resolution that first authorised force to expel Iraq from Kuwait in 1990.
The former MP and life peer said he lived "every day" with the aftermath of the Iraq war which he, as a member of Tony Blair's cabinet, authorised and has since said he regrets.
Meanwhile, to ease the strain, it should increase the army's authorised size by at least 30,000 soldiers, the number temporarily added to the force by Congress earlier in the war.
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